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HISTORY

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IRELAND,

From the Year 1599, to 1603.

With a fhort Narration of the State of
the Kingdom from the Year 1169.

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IRELAND.

By FYNES MORYSON, Gent.
Secretary to the Lord Mountjoy, then Lord Deputy.

VOL. II.

DV BLIN:

Printed by S. POWELL

For GEORGE EWING, at the Angel and Bible
in Dame-ftreet, Bookfeller, M DCC XXXV.

A Continuation of BooK II. CHA P. II.

Of the befieging of the Spaniards at Kinfale, with the Delivery of the Town to the Lord Deputy, and their Return into Spain in the fame Year

1601.

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HE 13th Day of November, 1601, our Fleet recovered the Mouth of Kinfale Harbour, but could not get in, the Wind being strong against them. The 14th Day the Fleet with much Difficulty warped in, VOL. II.

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and recovered the Harbour, whence the Admiral
and Vice-Admiral came to the Lord Deputy at the
Camp. This Night and the next Day the 2000
Foot fent under Captains in the Queen's Ships
were landed and came to the Camp: And the 15th
Day in the Afternoon the Lord Deputy went
aboard the Ships, whence returning to the Camp,
the Enemy difcerned him riding in the Head of
a Troop of Horfe, and made a Shot out of the
Town at him, which grazed so near him that it
did beat the Earth in his Face. In these Ships
were fent unto us not only Artillery and Munition,
but also fpecial Officers to attend the fame, as 5
Cannoneers, 2 Black-fmiths, 2 Wheel-wrights,
and 2 Carpenters. This Day the Lord Deputy
was advertised, that according to his former Di-
rection Sir Chriftopher St. Laurence was come out
of the Pale, and the Earl of Clanrickard out of
Connaught, to the Lord Prefident's Camp, to
whom his Lordship wrote that if the Rebels
fhould flip by him he should be careful to come
up
with his Forces to our Camp, fo as he might
arrive there to join with us before the Rebels
came up fo far. The Queen's Ships, after they
had faluted the Lord Deputy at his going aboard
with thundring Peals of Ordnance, had Direction
the next Day to beat upon a Castle in the Ifland,
called Castle Nypark, which the Lord Deputy was
refolved to make his next Work, and to beat the
Spaniards out of it, and fo to inveft the Town
on that Side: this fome of the Ships performed,
and brake the top of the Caftle, but finding that
they did it no greater Hurt, and that the Weather
was extreme ftormy, they ceafed fhooting. This
Day his Lordship gave Direction that the roɑ
Horfe and 1000 Foot which firft landed at Caftle
Haven, and now were arrived from thence in the
Harbour of Kinfale, should be conducted to Cork
to refresh themfelves, for being beaten at Sea,

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and now landed in extreme Weather, and in a Winter Camp where they had no Means to be refreshed, they began to die, and would have been loft or made unferviceable if this Course had not been taken to hearten them. This Day and for many Days after divers Spaniards ran from the Town to us, by whom we understood that in the 10th Day's Skirmish the above-named Capt. Soto, a Man of special Account, was flain.

The 17th Day the Weather continued ftormy, fo as neither that Day nor the next we could land our Ordnance or do any thing of Moment, yet because this was the Day of her Majefty's Coronation, which his Lordship purposed to folemnize with some extraordinary Attempt if the Weather would have fuffered us to look abroad; we fent at Night, when the Storm was fomewhat appeafed, the Serjeant-Major and Capt. Bodley, with fome 400 Foot, to difcover the Ground about Castle Nypark, and to see whether it might be carried with the Pick-ax, which was accordingly attempted; but the Engine we had gotten to defend our Men while they were to work being not fo ftrong as it fhould have been, they within the Caftle having Store of very great Stones on the Top, tumbled them down fo faft as they broke it, so that our Men returned with the Lofs of two Men, and proceeded no further in that Course.

The 18th Day the Lord Deputy called a Council both of the Council of Ireland, and of all the Colonels and chief Officers of the Field, and propounded to them, that fince it had pleased her Majefty fo graciously to fupply us with the Matter and Provifions for the War, it was our Parts to advise of such a Form as might be most likely to bring forth an Effect not unworthy her Princely Care. First, our Strength and Means to attempt the Place, or continue the Siege, were tho

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